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Inspired by Judith Jarvis Thomson's philosophical thought experiment "The Violinist, " What Happened to Tom?? is a psychological and philosophical thriller, a horror story that any one of millions of people could, at any moment, experience. Tom, like many men, assumes that since pregnancy is a natural part of being a woman, it's no big deal: a woman finds herself pregnant, she does or does not go through with it, end of story. But then Tom wak...

Fact-driven fiction. Speculative. Provocative. What could've been. What should've been. * ¿Damages Home for Unwed Fathers Fighting Words Comedown What Sane Man Sweet Sixteen Ballsy Justified It's a Boy Men Need Sex How We Survived The Knitting Group The Mars Colonies A PostTrans PostPandemic World Unless Alleviation The Women's Party My Last Year

Jess used to be a man. Then he found himself in a female body. It wasn't funny. (Why would anyone even think it was?) * "There's a scene in Tootsie (1982) that is surely one of the most unacclaimed scenes of all time: Dustin Hoffman's character, Michael, as 'Dorothy', makes a suggestion on the set, and the director dismisses it out of hand. As I remember it, Hoffman's face-conveying surprise, confusion, indignation-shows perfectly Michael'...

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The title says it all. A collection of close to two hundred exposes and analyses of everyday sexist shit (and gender shit, since gender is aligned with sex) that pisses me off. Includes pieces previously published in The Philosophers' Magazine, Philosophy Now, Herizons, fbomb.org, Humanist in Canada, and Victoria Times Colonist, as well as a great many previously unpublished pieces. Note: This second edition includes all of the pieces in the f...

A collection of think pieces on a variety of topics: the environment, business, rights and responsibilities, social issues, ethics, education, sports, religion, and so on. An omnibus of the four Shit that Pisses Me Off volumes, * plus over a hundred additional pieces. * minus the pieces that address sexism, which are anthologized in Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off, along with a great many additional pieces. Includes pieces previously published ...

In a near-future, 'gender recognition' legislation is repealed, and it becomes illegal for males to identify as females and females to identify as males. However, due in part to the continued conflation of sex and gender and in part to the insistence that gender align with sex, it also becomes illegal for males to be feminine and females to be masculine. A gender identity dystopia.

Impact presents an extended confrontation between a sexual assault victim and her assailants, as part of an imagined slightly revised court process, in order to understand why they did what they did and, on that basis, to make a recommendation to the court regarding sentence. It does not go ... as expected.A novella for women and men alike. An attempt to explain nothing short of misogyny.

What if one day, all of the women suddenly disappeared, leaving the men to take their places, fill their roles, do what they did. What would happen? How would the men react?Here and now, women's subordination is so systemic it's unremarkable (to all but serious feminists). In It Wasn't Enough, once women are gone and men have to take their places, fill their roles, the subordination becomes remarkable-that is, it becomes noticeable. And then- ...

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Three strikes and you're out.That's the iron-clad rule in a near-future North America where patience with crime-and criminals-has run out. First offenders are educated about the consequences of their crimes, the goal being effective rehabilitation. Second offenders are sent to prison in the hope they'll get the message. And those who offend a third time . . .They're kicked out.In this intriguing novel, novelist and philosopher Peg Tittle explo...

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Thinking critically about the arguments and messages we see every day a " in words or in pictures a " gives us the power to make up our own minds. Thinking critically about the way we express ourselves a " in writing or in person a " gives us the power to persuade. In Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason, Peg Tittle empowers students with a solid grounding in the lifelong skills of argumentation, evaluation, and considered analysis that shou...

What If . . . Collected Philosophical Thought Experiments" is a brief, inexpensive collection of over 100 classic and contemporary <>, each with an accompanying commentary and thought provoking questions, which explore philosophical arguments and often address a genuine problem in life." The value of the book is in its simplicity in both format and tone: each thought experiment is accompanied by commentary that explains the importance of the e...

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